Secret Garden Embroidery Design Handbook

If you've ever dreamed about designing your own embroidery patterns, then this handbook is your invitation to start playing and creating!

For those who know some basic stitches and feel comfortable with a needle and thread, this handbook will help you move from following patterns to creating your own embroidery designs.

The Secret Garden Embroidery Design Handbook covers a range of design fundamentals including composition, balance, and colour theory. Beginning with three basic sample embroidery elements - a vine, leaf, and flower - the Handbook guides you through putting pencil to paper and playing with composition, encouraging you to create your very own designs.

You'll also learn how to resize embroidery patterns, create seamless, repeating embroidery designs, and incorporate parts of other patterns into your design. 

The Secret Garden Handbook is a 51 page pdf eBook packed with illustrations and beautiful inspiration images. 

Skill level: Adventurous beginner

What's included

• 51 page pdf eBook to read on your digital device
• Design principles like composition and balance
• Colour theory
• Putting pencil to paper and creating your own designs
• Making seamless, repeating patterns
• Incorporating parts of other embroidery patterns
• Resizing embroidery patterns 
• Transferring patterns to fabric
• Instructions for stitching three basic components (vine, leaf, and flower) for you to practice combining into new designs

Learn to Embroider

New to embroidery?  We offer a free Learn to Embroider Series, delivered directly to you via email.

 It contains video lessons for 6 simple stitches, and a free design to practice with.

Printing Info

This is a PDF eBook that is designed to be viewed digitally, and can also be printed at home on a US Letter/A4 home printer.